Editors' Review

YouTube Movie Maker is a complete solution for helping you create, upload, and manage your YouTube videos, all from one streamlined interface. Whether you need to create videos for work, or you just like to do it for fun, you'll enjoy the convenience of having all of these tools in one place.

Pros

Adding and arranging: When you're ready to make a movie, your first step will be to choose what type of files to add. Options include Video, Audio, Image, Icon, and Lyric. You can add any and all of these to the same project and then move them around on the Timeline until you have them where you want them. And if you're new to this type of program, there's a convenient Movie Wizard to guide you through the process.

Direct publishing: When you think you have all of your clips, images, and other files in place, you can preview your movie right from the app's main interface. And if you're happy with what you see, all you have to do is click the button for Publish to YouTube to get your video online. Alternately, you can save the finished product to your computer to upload or distribute later on.

Cons

Interface design: While the layout of the interface is clear and functional, the color scheme definitely leaves something to be desired. A lot of the text is in gray or brown lettering on a black background, and some menus are even light gray on dark gray, making them almost impossible to read. There are several skins available for this program as well, and they all have the same issues in at least some parts of the interface.

Bottom Line

YouTube Movie Maker is a convenient and agile tool to help you create videos that you can then directly publish online. The free version does put a 5-minute time limit on videos, but there is no limit on how many videos you can make or how long you can use the program for, and there is no watermark on published videos.

Publisher's Description

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From RZfun:
Youtube Movie Maker is a free and total solution for Make, Upload and Manage Youtube Videos, it can be used to make/edit and upload YouTube videos from various videos, pictures, audios, musics, texts, lyrics, subtitles. provides hundreds of special effects to make cool youtube videos, fast batch convert and upload lots of various videos onto youtube, manage and promote youtube videos.
Main features:
Make youtube video from various media files, include any formats video/movie files, audio/music files, photo/picture files.
Batch Upload lots of various videos onto youtube with right profile.
Batch Convert lots of various videos to right profile then upload onto youtube.
Record/Capture videos from computer screen, video device, camera high efficiency and high quality.
Record/Capture audios from any audio input pin or any audio device, like, microphone.
Provides many video/audio editing features, such as cut, crop, trim, split, merge, rotate, speed up/slow down, add/mix musics/audios, join video clips together, mix multiple videos on one screen, videos in video, pictures in picture, add cool font texts, add special effects, add transition effects, add action/animation, add video shapes, video chroma Key, take snapshots, beautify video,
Provide hundreds of special effects and transitions, make your videos more polished with special effects and
Timeline Edit Mode allows you to arrange videos, pictures, audios and texts using a timeline, this will help you to add action, effects, titles and background music at just the right moment easy.
Built-in Lyrics video maker, help you easy to make cool lyrics video.
Supports all YouTube HD and SD video profiles, easy to make the video to be the best effect on YouTube.
Manage and Promote the youtube videos.
Support CPU multi-core technology to optimize performance.
Hardware Acceleration.
32bit and 64bit Windows Optimize.

What's new in this version:

New program user interface, more friendly and easy to use.

All-new "Audio Shake Effect" module, now the user can easy to put Shake/Zoom effect on the videos, images, lyric, text, credits, etc. let them to bounce to the bass in the beat like the audio waves do.

The "Particle Effect" supports "Emit density controlled by audio" option, now the user can right click the Particle Effect in Overlay Line to check this option, let the density...
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It does everything I need it to do, this is an exceptionally good program.

Cons

I have used it for years, they didn't waste any time making the appearance shiny and new, it's a very straight forward appearance. But I can honestly say I don't care. and I don't know why i can't use the latest version in my ooooold computer.

"malware flag"? i'm using it, no problem, no malware, it's safe, so I think there is something wrong on your computer, you'd better capture a screenshot picture about this problem, then mail to support@makeyoutubevideo.com, i think you will get a right solution. ^_^, hope can help you.

it's no problem on my computer, you need to press "publish to local" button, then the program will save the video as mp4 format which is the best format for YouTube. or i think there is something wrong on your computer, you can mail to support@makeyoutubevideo.com for help.

it's no problem in my computer, you should press "publish to local" button, the program will save the video as mp4 video format which is the best format for YouTube. or i think there is something wrong on your computer, but you can mail to support@makeyoutubevideo.com for help.

I downloaded and installed the program. I did not like it for my own personal taste. I uninstalled it. Now every time I try to play a .MPEG or .AVI file, or use a webcam, Youtube Movie Maker starts installing itself. You dont even have an option to say yes or no, It just starts. The only thing you can do is click cancel, which pops up another install. You have to click cancel on 10 of them, yes it tries to install itself 10 times in a row. I cannot find the Reg Keys it altered to remove it. Once you have installed this program, you are screwed.

Summary

ALTERS YOUR REGISTRY TO INSTALL ITSELF AGAIN AFTER UNINSTALL. DO NOT INSTALL THIS.

Try installing it again then uninstall it with revo uninstaller at level 4. After doing this go to start default programs and file associations and look at your problem. File types You can change the defaults here. If that doesn't work ther are free file association fixers on the web. Or use system restore to before the first install bob f Montreal part time tech

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Full Specifications

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What's new in version 16.02

New program user interface, more friendly and easy to use.

All-new "Audio Shake Effect" module, now the user can easy to put Shake/Zoom effect on the videos, images, lyric, text, credits, etc. let them to bounce to the bass in the beat like the audio waves do.

The "Particle Effect" supports "Emit density controlled by audio" option, now the user can right click the Particle Effect in Overlay Line to check this option, let the density of Particle be controlled by audio.

New "Big Font" mode, helps the old user see the program more clearly, and more comfortable to use.

New "Audio VU Meter" module, provided more types and options, helps the user easy to get wonderful audio visualizer waves.

New "Font Option" module, provided more font types and options, helps the user easy to change the type and color of the font.

Now, within "Lyric Maker" module, the user can directly create multiple-layer lyric file, that will help the user easy to create the lyrics video of the duo, trio, and ensemble, etc.

Now, the program will auto save all previous configuration within REC Module.

Now, the user can directly select the Reference Line when saving the Template.